The Whore and the Whale
La Puta y la Ballena concerns a Spanish journalist, Vera, brilliantly played by Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who goes from Madrid to Buenos Aires to Patagonia on the trail of a seventy-year-old story involving a love letter, old photographs, a whale, a bordello and Tango. In Buenos Aires Vera learns that she has hereditary breast cancer, and soon after she crosses a line – by conventional film standards a key scene is missing – and suddenly she is in hospital, has already been operated upon, and determines that from now on she will do exactly as she likes. She has entered a world governed by her psychological needs, and suddenly ‘coincidence’ flowers around her…
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